There is also a beautiful legend among the people that grandma used white tea to treat measles. White tea is also circulated in daily life to treat sore throat, cold and fever, gastrointestinal discomfort, clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation and relieving summer heat, and acclimatization.
Zhou Liang Gong, a celebrity in Qing Dynasty, wrote in Xiao Min Ji: "Bai Hao Silver Needle, produced in Hongxue Cave in Taimu Mountain, is cold in nature and works as well as rhinoceros horn. It is the holy medicine of measles. " The southern region is rainy and humid, and it is prone to rash. Old Chinese medicine practitioners will emphasize the use of white tea for half-drinking and half-coating, and it will soon be fine!
Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "White tea is cold and cool, and its merits are the same as rhinoceros horn." Rhinoceros horn is a famous cold medicine, which has the effects of clearing heart, calming nerves, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, purging fire and detoxifying, but the statement that white tea has the same effect as rhinoceros horn remains to be discussed.
White tea belongs to micro-fermented tea, and its basic technology includes picking, withering, drying and preservation. White tea is not fried or kneaded, and the process is natural. The whole production process does not destroy the action of enzymes, does not promote oxidation, maintains the fragrance, and the soup tastes fresh.
White tea technology retains the nutrients in tea to the greatest extent, especially tea polyphenols, amino acids, caffeine, tea polysaccharides, vitamins and so on. Everything naturally forms the unique quality of white tea, making it the most primitive, natural and healthy tea.
Traditional Chinese medicine has proved that white tea is cool to relieve summer heat, and has the effects of clearing away heat and reducing fire, relieving summer heat and detoxifying, and treating diseases.
In recent 20 years, the research results of scholars at home and abroad show that white tea not only has the same health care and medicinal value as other teas in regulating blood lipid, preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, regulating immune function, resisting oxidation (delaying aging), resisting radiation, beautifying and removing spots, resisting tumor, inhibiting bacteria and viruses, but also has more unique effects in protecting cardiovascular system, resisting radiation, inhibiting bacteria and viruses, and inhibiting cancer cell activity.
20 1 1 led by professor Liu Zhonghua, director of the National Plant Functional Components Utilization Engineering Technology Research Center and Hunan Agricultural University. Integrating the technical resources and research teams of National Plant Functional Components Utilization Engineering Research Center, Tsinghua University Traditional Chinese Medicine Modernization Research Center, Peking University Aging Medicine Research Center, Key Laboratory of Tea Science of Ministry of Education, state administration of traditional chinese medicine Sub-health Intervention Technology Laboratory and five famous institutions, taking Baihao Yinzhen and Bai Mudan as the research objects, after more than one year of rigorous and scientific analysis and demonstration, the health care efficacy of white tea was systematically studied and released.
On the basis of a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the quality and functional components of white tea, the research project team constructed a biological model and a cell model, and discussed the health care efficacy and mechanism of white tea from the perspectives of chemistry, cell biology and molecular biology, such as beauty, anti-aging, anti-inflammation, lipid and weight reduction, blood sugar regulation, uric acid regulation, liver protection and antivirus.
The results show that drinking white tea often does have the following functions:
1. White tea has obvious free radical scavenging ability, can effectively resist skin cell aging caused by bad environment or living habits, and has good beauty and anti-aging effects. At the same time, it has a strong inhibitory effect on skin cell aging caused by various radiation.
2. White tea can effectively regulate glucose and lipid metabolism, activate low density lipoprotein receptor gene, regulate insulin secretion of β cells, improve insulin resistance, and effectively reduce blood lipid and blood glucose levels.
3. Old white tea can effectively improve the antioxidant capacity of the liver and repair the liver injury caused by excessive drinking.
4. White tea can effectively regulate human immune function and enhance people's ability to resist virus.
5. White tea can effectively regulate human immune factors and inflammatory factors, and has obvious anti-inflammatory and fire-clearing effects, especially aged white tea.
6. Laobai tea can effectively regulate the distribution structure of intestinal microbial population, increase the number of beneficial microorganisms such as Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, and reduce the number of harmful microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, which has a good regulatory effect on the stomach.
Tea is a simple and easy-to-get beverage, which has long been recognized by China people both spiritually and materially. Because of its rich nutrients and unique health care function, white tea has responded to people's pursuit of health in this era and has become a sought-after tea in the market.
The cold days in winter are short, so it is necessary to prevent the attack of colds. The dry climate in winter is also easy to get angry. In addition, the greasy diet at the end of the year, we should pay more attention to diet and drink more old white tea to recuperate the body, which is of great benefit to moistening dryness and lowering blood fat.